Re: gcc 3.2 on Solaris 8 (libgcc_s.so problem)

["Anthony Feick" <afeick at hotmail dot com>]

> > I tried the Sun linker and assembler in "/usr/ccs/bin".  With them I can 
> > at least run a simple program, but now there are
> > problems linking source files that use "std::basic_string<wchar_t>".
> Do you have a simple testcase that fails for you?  Then please file
> a bug (via gccbug) so this can be investigated.
I've already deleted the gcc build that gave me problems, so I'll try it 
agian sometime later.

> > I'm sure I'll get it going eventually.  I just found out I need
> > another configure flag "--enable-cxx-flags="-fshort-wchar".  Thank
> > you for your help.
> This seems terribly wrong: the gcc/g++ defaults for wchar_t match
> what Solaris 8 has in <iso/wchar_iso.h>, while the -fshort-wchar
> flag changes wchar_t to short, creating an incompatibility with
> system functions.
>
> Why do you think you need this?
>
> 	Rainer
We are building a cross-platform app (MacOSX, Windows, Solaris, Linux, and 
hopefully FreeBSD) that needs 2-byte unicode characters.  In "gcc 3.0.4" on 
Solaris this flag wasn't necessary to make -fshort-wchar work.  However, for 
gcc 3.2 on Linux it seems to be necessary, and I assumed it was now for 
Solaris as well.

Also, I guess I don't know what system functions this would interfere with.


-Tony


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